Farfel Research Notebooks

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Mattioli, Pietro Andrea (1500-1577) Herbar aneb Bylinae See #211 #168 #600 Prague: Daniel Adam Weleslawnja, 1596. f^0 Ref: Nissen 1315 Pritzel 5993 Graessle 4. 447 Copy: NY Botanical Garden, Columbia Univ. Bayerische Stoatsbibliothek, Murich. [16] 476 [63] 39 cm. (8 7/8 x 13 1/4")

{Huber z Rizenpachu, Adam 1546-1613 > tr. + ed. {Adam z Veleslavina, Daniel 1546-1599 >

#211 Herbarz ginak Bylinar, 1562. 32 cm f^0 [20] cccxcii [25] Prague: Georgius Melantriochus Nissen 1314.

70 Kap. LXVI Cuciofera - Miiij Kap LXVII Musa Musa fructus

The 1562 Czech ed. of Mattioli's Commentarii in Sex Libros Pedavii Dioscoridis presented a new + larger set of woodcuts for more accomplished than the earlier illustrations.

The commercial date palm is thought to be the world's oldest cultivated fruit tree. Fossil records indicate that the date palm was common around the Mediterranean and in Mesopotamia as early as the Eocene epoch some 50 million years ago; among written records, an Akkadian cuneiform text from around 2500 BC mentions the date palm as a cultivated tree. Bas-relief sculptures from the palace of Sennacharib in Niveveh, Iraq carved in the 7th C. B.C. clearly depict cultivated groves.

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Monte, Petrus de (d. 1457) Bishop of Brescia. See #365 #475 Repertorium utri usque iuris (Ed. Comes de Alvarotis). Padua: Johannes de Herbort, de Seligenstadt. 16 Nov. 1480. (First Press) Ref: Goff M-544 HC 11589 Polain (B) 2786 BMC VII 917 Copy: New L, U Tex L

Vol. I: a10 b-i8 k10 kl l-q8; r-x8 y6; A-LLL8; M-X8 XX10. 372 leaves, the 1st + last blank. Vol. II: a10 b-m8 mn n-y8 z10 z A-L N-Z8 380 leaves, the 1st + last blank. Types 92 G; 185 G. Capital spaces, the first 4 with guide letters. Vol. I, 3a: 63 lines, 290x177 mm.

92 G - law text type, with mostly double-crossed capitals. M seems to lean to left. Heavy C; no hyphen. In use in 1478-80 and afterwards taken to Venice. 185 G - medium heading Type. A with curled top brought over to left. In use in 1478-80 and afterwards takes to Venice.

Marked folio 83

Catadismus Cauillatio Catastrum Caupo - a petty [?frandesmen?] huckster innkeeper Cathalogus Causa trial, a legal case Cathedra - a chain trial Cathedraticum Cathecismus

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See #379

Petranco, Francesco (1304-1374) Opera (Ed: Sebastian Brant?) f^o Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496. Ref: Goff P-365 HC 12749 Polain (B) 3059 Oates 2791 BMC III 757 Copy: HEHL, PML, FolgSL, LC, YUL

389 leaves, the last blank. 55 lines, headlines, & marginalia. 208 (215) x 131 (139) mm. Types 115 Rom, titles of separate works and headlines (p8) large Roman type mostly used c majuscles only for headlines. Q c long almost horizontal tail, A c stroke on top, narrow E, slanting shanked M, large O

HEHL #93090 sub. in red only

Prather large for the type, c round loop higher than the shaft at the top, shanow. Tall narrow a and i c slanting stroke as dot in characteristic of the lower case In use in 1486-96 110 Rom (P23) large Roman type. Titled Q c long tail well below it, small A, straight shanked M, P c level top, broader S, broader a, dotted i. In use in 1494 + 96. 87* Rom (P25) med. Roman type. Single Qu c tail produced further to the right, h straight to right + titled forward. 75 Rom (P24) small Rom. Type. Single Qu, the Qc straight not quite horizontal tail, 2 kinds of single hyphen. In use from 1494. Capital spaces c guide letters.

Remedies for Adversity

De Dentium aegritudine: Dial' XCIIII O^2 (of ^6) (Decaying Teeth) De aegritudine Tibiar: Dial' XCV (A ching legs) De Caecitate: Dialogus XCVI (Blundness)

This is the 1st collected edition on which the poet based his claim to fame, + the only ed. published during the 15th C. the most important of all Petrarch's Latin works in this volume is his collection of Epistles formed by himself in his lifetime.

The author's celebrated book on how to conduct one's life in the face of good + ill fortune. This longest of Petrarch's prose works is divided into two extended dialogues between ellegorical commentators, the 1st being Reason + Joy, the 2nd between Reason + Sorrow, c the message emerging that humans should seek not prosperity + plenty, but sufficiency. The test is much more lively + delightful, than most tracts on morality, as the author provides instruction under not only the expected chapters about death + riches, but also under such headings as pleasant smells, elephants + camels, the clearness of the air, + coming out of prision. The book also has considerable medical interest c dialogues in the 2nd part dealing c sickness, gout, epidermal infections, the plague, toothache, leg pains, blindness, stomach disorders, madness + other maladies.

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Jacobus de Voragine (German) Leben der Heiligen: Sommerteil f^o

See #376 #77 #105 #1 #368 #384 #216 #222

Augsburg: Johann Schonsperger, 2 Dec 1482. Ref: Goff J-167 H. 9977, Schr. 4307 Copy: PML Single column.

Von Sant Symon und Juda Das x1 blat (9.5 x 6.5") 240x165mm. Saints Simon + Jude the Apostles - Oct. 28

Summer St. Andrew (Nov. 30) --> St. Paul (June 30) Winter The 7 Soms of St. Felicitas (July 10) --> Sta Saturninus, Perpetua, Felicitas + their companions (Nov. 29)

my leaf

[crossed out] ccclxxx blat [end crossed out] 2 columns, 39 lines + headline. 210 (218) x 143 mm. (cccxii blat, total) after Das xlvi blat Wolfgang Bishop Oct. 31

Der Heiligen Leben - The most widely diffused vernacular legendary in medieval Emope. Though often said to be a translation of J. de Voragine's Legenda aurea, in reality, it only uses the Legenda aurea as one of several sources.

(Das wintertail der hailigen leber)

Leben der Heiligen: Winterteil. f^o Augsburg: Hans Otmar. 1507. Reference: Weller 395 VL 16, Williams - Knapp p. 237 (d29) Copy: 1 Universitals bibliotek, Freiburg in Breisgaw. (K3376, W-2) 2 Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen. Sommerteil --> Munich, (1726d) Bayerische Stastsbiliothek

(P6) Types: 105 a7G - German text typo - used from 1495 150G onwards in conjunction c 150 (P4)

312 numbered leaves

Johann Otmar. Printer + publisher. Reutlungen, Tubingen, Augsburg. W from 1482 --> early 16th C (1514).

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Jacobus de Voragine [German] Augsburg: 1489. Winterteil. H. 9982 von sant Symon und Judas. in thi ed. my leaf is also blat xl. (except there are 42 lines present in this ed.) begins blatxxxix E^5 (of 8) ends blat xli E^7 (of 8) before von sant lisula und jrer geselschafften. von sant crispurs und crispiniano after von sant harcisso. von sant. Quintino.

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Ethiopian manuscript on thick vellum. 7 x 7 1/2 inches. Original prickings + ruling visible.

See #638

Psalter (Ge'ez title, Mazmura Dawit) or Psalms of David, usually called a "Dawit" in Ethiopian tradition. The Psalter in Ethiopia usually contains other texts in addition to the Psalms, namely the Canticles of the Prophets (Mazmura Nabiyyat) + the Praises of Mary (Weddase Maryam) The Psalter is one of the commenest Ethiopian manuscript texts.

Written in the Ge'ez language, in a single column on 19 scared lines in black ink c red headings. 2 lines along upper margin in smaller neat hand in black ink on the recto.

latter half of the 18th C or 1st part of the 19th C

recto --> end of Psalm 103/104 + the opening of Psalm 104/105* (in red) verso --> continuation of Psalm 104/105. * in the Western Bible recension.

Ethiopic is a Semitic language basically not very different from Arabic. In 2 respects, however, Ethiopic script is unique in the Semitic family: it is written from left to right (perhaps, an indication that this script was introduced c Christianity, by Greeks) and it is not purely consonantal, but shows vowel sounds by attaching various dashes + loops to one corner or another of the letters, so becoming not an alphabet, but a syllabary of 287 characters including numerals + Amharic modifications.

my leaf M^1 (of 6). HEHL #85308 no sub.